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...Havana, 50 flaxen-haired Soviet technicians clutch cardboard boxes of rum still stenciled with the anachronistic legend: "Let's go to Cuba, the inviting island next door." Soviet-piloted MIG-21s scorch over the countryside near the airbase at San Antonio de los Baños; Soviet freighters dot Havana harbor, new arrivals unloading daily...
Each of the legislators was instructed to inhale deeply, then to exhale as hard as he could through a tube attached to the bellows of a spirometer. The motion of the bellows made an electronic dot on the screen of a nearby oscilloscope. A persistent lung disorder usually shows up as a droop in the loop made by the dot as it moves downward across the screen during exhalation. Besides the blow-out test, each Congressman had a chest X ray and filled out a short questionnaire: "Are you ever troubled by shortness of breath? Do you have more than...
Among Latin America's Roman Catholics, the cult of the saint plays a more vivid role in people's lives than the Mass itself. The feast days honoring patron saints often surpass Christmas in religious fervor, and shrines and grottoes, where miracle seekers pray to their saints, dot the landscape. The church often has to discourage believers in supposed miracles and newly "sainted" beings. Sometimes, as in Brazil last week, this eagerness to accept new visions takes a macabre turn...
Critics say that the common standards enforced are apt to be low ones, and blame franchise operations for both the bland sameness of food and service and the repetitive look of the neon-and-chrome shacks and stands that dot the nation's roadsides. The U.S. Justice Department argues that the parceling out of exclusive sales territories by franchisers violates the Sherman Antitrust Act. But franchising won a key legal victory this spring, when the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court's judgment against exclusive franchised territories. The case, which returns to a U.S. district court...
...machine then interprets the number through a Morse code-like system that notes the number of lines and the varying widths of spaces between them but makes no attempt to determine the actual shape of the numeral. It immediately rejects any check that shows a flaw in the "dot-dash" code. Machines Bull's system is simpler and cheaper to buy ($12,000 for basic equipment for a small bank) than the system that IBM was pushing...